Unencryption problems - HELP!!!

[Edgars Šmits]

I have totally screwed the pooch this time, I think. I installed the
alternate version of 64 bit Koala, and for some stupid reason chose to
"encrypt" my home directory. Of course, I didn't understand it at the
time, was in a hurry, and didn't pay any attention to what I was
doing...

To make a long story short, my old laptop died but the hard drive was
OK. I mounted it as an external USB drive, wanted to access it to save
the data, nada, the home partition is encrypted. I tried to run
"/usr/bin/ecryptfs-mount-private", but error out with "ERROR:
Encrypted private directory is not setup properly"

Am I hosed or can I somehow either break the encryption or else fix
the setup problem?

Hoping for a quick answer other than, boy, you are really stupid<G>

Ed the idiot - I back up everyone else's data, didn't back up my own....